The U.S. vs John Lennon

Thoughts after watching The U.S. vs John Lennon
by John Tibayan 4/15/07

I just watched The U.S. vs John Lennon, a film documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono. A must see movie! The film took me on a nostalgic tour of my own life during the years from 1966 - 1980. I remembered how I felt back then, the gnawing feeling that there was something terribly wrong in our society and that it was being hidden from the general public. Over the years I have done extensive research to better understand why the world was the way it was.

While watching this film, I was astonished how little I knew back in the 70's about the oligarchy that was pulling the strings of the politicians causing many of the problems and inequities in our society between the haves and the have nots. I didn't realized at the time that most of the real news was blocked out by corporate owned media networks. As a Viet Nam vet, I participated in the Viet Nam anti-war movement, as I do today against the wars in the Middle East.

I am so grateful for the advent of the Internet which has made possible thousands or possibly millions of independent grassroots news sources, with thousands of independent investigative reporters. The Internet is evolving and maturing and finally it's powerful promise of providing the instantaneous communication of news and events has arrived. The advancements in new computer technology has made this all possible. The technology of FREE websites, listservers and blogs has facilitated the immediate dissemination of special interest information to which people can have immediate access.

What is truly remarkable, is that this technology is only at its inception. The latest phase of technology which has exploded into popularity is FREE Video Sharing as led by Google/YouTube. What this service has provided is that any individual with the technical ability can become their own TV network for FREE.

Back to the John Lennon movie, we know that John Lennon was assassinated in 1980. At the time the public was spoon fed a story that the alleged assassin was another psychopathic "lone gunman". Sound familiar? Remember JFK, MLK, RFK. I wondered what I would now find out about John Lennon's assassination with all the independent investigative reporting that is currently published on the Internet. I googled "John Lennon assassination" and immediately found the extraordinary website http://www.john-lennon.com. I read the articles about the assassination and was astonished by the depth of information now available that was never published or broadcasted by corporate owned media. I was also amazed at how quickly I accessed the information. One minute. Who killed John Lennon? A must read! See section on homepage John Lennon News And Articles Archive. Who Authorized The Assassination Of John Lennon?

John Lennon's Assassination by Jerry Mazza

John Lennon talked about, wrote about, played music about peace and love. He was a very great visionary who dared to "imagine all the people living life in peace". "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us and the world will be as one."

John Lennon website: http://www.john-lennon.com

VIDEO: The U.S. vs John Lennon film: 38 min 19 sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfyVYqYL90

VIDEO: The U.S. vs John Lennon film trailer: 2 min http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3492925355365929150&q=%25

VIDEO: "Imagine" Music Video: 3 min 14 sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0

VIDEO: Google online videos about John Lennon
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=john+lennon&num=10&so=0&hl=en&start=10